— Julia, what are you doing on the second weekend of June 2018? - Um... I don't know. - Don't plan anything, you're invited to the wedding. It was March 2017, a week earlier my flatmate's boyfriend proposed to her, they decided not...

He picked up the bill wrapped in leather, looked me in the eyes and said: “Listen, I don’t want to offend you, don’t think that I’m taking care of you, I know that you’re an independent woman, but please let me pay for you".…

“Yulenka, here, here,” a thin man with a tight, white-toothed smile looks out of the half-open window of the car... “Wonderful... the driver is Russian,” he flashes through his thoughts, “again, I won’t be able to read the New Yorker.” “Good morning, Alexander,” I answer affably. Go. I started using Uber...